The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
Chieko Baisho
Hisashi Igawa
Chishū Ryū
Gin Maeda
Masumi Harukawa
Hajime Hana
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Shin Morikawa
Tokue Hanazawa
Chieko Misaki
Yasukiyo Umeno
Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Chiaki Seo
Masako Tomiyama
Hisao Dazai
Kôei Yamamoto
Riri Sasaki
Hiroshi Inuzuka
Senri Sakurai
Êtarô Ishibashi
Shin Yasuda
Nobuo Tsukamoto
Tomoe Matsuda
Michie Terada
Narumi Mizuta
Yoshino Tani
Ryōko Mizuki